Detecting which column was clicked in a Table field

[-= JB =-]

Dynamic Table Field will tell you where you clicked.  It is posted
in the old section of On-Rev under the user sundown.

-=>JB<=-



On May 26, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Mark Stuart wrote:

> on 5/26/2010, Jacqueline wrote:
>>>
> Something like this:
>   put word 4 of the clickchunk into tCharNum
>   subtract (the number of chars in line 1 to \
>      (word 2 of the clickline)-1 of me) +1 from tCharNum
>   set the itemdel to tab
>   put the number of items in char 1 to tCharNum of the value of the
> clickLine
> <<
>
> Hi,
> I tried your script and it worked as is, but not as planned.
> When clicking in the white space of a column, it returns the number 4.
> When clicking on the text of a column, a number is returned.
> But when clicking in the far left column, it returns 0 (zero).
>
> So I changed the clickChunk to mouseCharChunk and that worked  
> better. It
> returned a value when clicking in the white space 'inside' the  
> values in
> the row. Clicking to the far left or far right of the row value text
> returns nothing.
>
> I did notice that So Smart Software has a tutorial on Table fields,
> which shows how to get the row number and column number from the field
> custom props. But the table field's lockText property has to be false,
> allowing editing. Having it set to true does not return a value :(
>
> So far I haven't found a bullet proof solution, but will continue to
> work on it and let you know.
>
> Anybody else got ideas on this?
>
> Regards,
> Mark Stuart
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